Faces of the wolf : managing the human, non-human boundary in Mongolia /

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In his study of the human, non-human relationships in Mongolia, Bernard Charlier explores the role of the wolf in the ways nomadic herders relate to their natural environment and to themselves. The wolf, as the enemy of the herds and a prestigious prey, is at the core of two technical relationships,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Charlier, Bernard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Colección:Inner Asia book series ; 10.
Temas:
Human-animal relationships > Mongolia.
Wolves > Mongolia > Psychological aspects.
Human ecology > Mongolia.
Herders > Mongolia > Psychology.
Relations homme-animal > Mongolie.
Loups > Mongolie > Aspect psychologique.
Écologie humaine > Mongolie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
NATURE > Animals > General.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.
Human-animal relationships.
Human ecology.
Manners and customs.
Wolves > Psychological aspects.
Mongolia > Social life and customs.
Mongolia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The wolf at the margins
  • From victim to giver : interpreting wolf attacks and revealing a morality
  • Hunting the wolf for 'wind horses' and revealing the individual
  • "Everything and its contrary" : between morality and ethics, equilibrium and excess, humanity and animality, what is a wolf?
  • Extending bodies : concealing and revealing persons through wolf's ankle bones and other objects kept near the body
  • Between surfaces and depths, actions and transformations, contours and tensions : no homeland for the wolf
  • Concluding remarks : Between differences, encompassments and repetitions : "who holds the strings of the wind?"

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